مرسین

See also: مرسين

Ottoman Turkish

مرسین

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسِين (marsīn), itself from Ancient Greek μυρσίνη (mursínē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛɾˈsin/

Noun

مرسین • (mersin)

1. myrtle (Myrtus communis)

   Synonym: مورد (murd)

Derived terms

• مرسین بالغی (mersin balığı, “sturgeon”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mersin
• → Azerbaijani: mərsin

Proper noun

Mersin province

مرسین • (Mersin)

1. Mersin (a city and province of Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Mersin

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mersin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرسین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Myrtus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1114
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرسین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4572
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mersin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرسین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812